About Aiken County, SC

Are you ready for some football!!!

Here's the schedule for Aiken & South Aiken High Schools

South Aiken Thoroughbreds

9/25/09 - 7:30pm at Barnwell

10/2/09 - 7:30pm vs. Dreher

10/9/09 - 7:30pm at Brookland-Cayce

10/16/09 - 7:30pm vs. Airport

10/23/09 - 7:30pm at Swansea

10/30/09 - 7:30pm vs. Midland Valley

Aiken High Hornets

9/25/09 - 7:30pm at Lexington

10/2/09 - 7:30pm at Irmo

10/9/09 - 8:00pm vs. Richland NE

10/16/09 - 7:30pm at White Knoll

10/23/09 - 8:00pm vs. Orangeburg

10/30/09 - 8:00pm vs. Dutch Fork

11/6/09 - 7:30pm at North Augusta

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Have fun at the games! Good luck to all the teams :)

Give me a call for real estate assistance around the world!! (be sure to mention my blog when you call)

The Carolina Real Estate Company - Aiken, South Carolina - 803.648.8660

Aiken is a great little city - but every once in awhile we all need to 'get away'!

My place to go has always been the shore. Down here they call it 'the beach' :)

My favorite beach (since moving here) in SC is definitely Hilton Head Island. Just a little more than a 2 hour drive and you are at the coast - with your toes in the sand :)

Just one of about 500 sunrise pics I took last week:

Come see what South Carolina has to offer!! Give me a call - I'm happy to help with your Aiken area real estate needs.

Have a great day!

There are many things that we as Real Estate agents can do to help our customers, and hopefully to turn them into long term Clients. One thing that I found very helpful is that I wrote some HTML pages on my website that help customers and clients when they are in Aiken from out of town with their accommodations and dining needs. The screen shot of my website (www.jackrothhomes.com) below from my IPhone shows 10 of the 26 restaurants in Downtown Aiken. If you "click" the phone number on the IPhone it calls the restaurant, if you "click" the website, it goes to the website and you can see the restaurants menus!

The same holds true for the Accommodations tab on my website, you can click the phone number to make reservations or click the website for pricing and room availabilities.

Making strangers feel comfortable is what it is all about in the Real Estate World and any small thing that we can do to help them while they are visiting is appreciated.

Storm season is here and power outages should be expected in many parts of the country. Lucky for me I live in Aiken, and my power rarely goes out! Let me know when you are ready to move here :)

THINGS TO KEEP ON HAND FOR POWER OUTAGES:

a cooler (or more if you have room to store them)

ice - keep as much on hand as you can store.

WHAT TO DO:

Keep your freezer FULL - it will keep the temp longer than a 1/2 full freezer (with the door kept closed)

Keep fridge and freezer doors CLOSED!!

Use up the perishable stuff first --- then go to non-perishable items.

Give us a call for your Aiken SC real estate needs :)

Happy Summer!

As y'all know - we've got some new construction going on for the past few months next door ----- what I haven't told you is that on the other side of us they've been working away , too! Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...here I am, stuck in the middle of all this construction!! hahahaha.

Well, the old Post Office is getting a fresh look (maintaining the historical aspect) for some new tenants. Yup - we're gonna have some new neighbors :)

Here's the old post office (on the corner of Park Ave & Laurens St - downtown Aiken)

Todd Lista Photography has been our neighbor in this historic building for many years - he has moved out to make room for some new tenants to occupy his building. Stewart Builders has been hard at it - turning it into office space - keeping the historic charm at the same time! They have done a great job.

Anyway - today our friend Todd brought us lunch! Just his way of saying 'thanks for putting up with all the construction noise/mess... next door'. WHAT A GUY! THANKS TODD - U ROCK :) Lunch was deeee-lish! -- and dessert was to-die-for! Thanks again neighbor :)

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Just a reminder of what is happening on the other side of us............

Park Place residential units - perfectly located in beautiful downtown Aiken.

This project is really coming along. 'pre-construction' pricing won't last much longer - call me today to take advantage of these great prices!

Pre-construction prices won't last!!

2 Bedroom/2 Bath: $429,000

3 Bedroom/2 Bath: $489,000

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Have a great weekend y'all! Thanks again for lunch Todd - you're the best :))

Be sure to mention my blog when you call!!